AMSTERDAM CALLING

I heard you today on the metro, in the morning, words falling from foreign tongues as the train took meso much further than the tracks permitted.

I heard you todayin the distance,calling, after the departure, a language dissolving the borders that bind us now broken but a hold still held that I hadn’t considered.

I heard you today from the other side of the track,on the other side of goodbye where I knew the grass was greener,where the felt the need was greater,I heard youstill existing encorenog steeds within mebut buried deepunder movement, metros and current concerns.

I heard you todayon the other side of the metro,in this new metropolis of oldunstoppable,unbreakable, unforgiving,unchanging,while I stopand falland break and change yearlymonthlyweeklydailyI heard you todayas you whispered from my memoriesa delightful hello.